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  1. First,) could someone please list the 14 states that require an arrest prior to asset forfeiture? I know of only 2 , New Mexico and Montana.
    Second) The item on the Chinese agents in country will probably make you look long and hard at you server the next time you dine at May Chow Yung Palace (and haberdashery)

  2. I absolutely carry at home. There are a plethora (do you know what a plethora is Jeffie?) of reports of people defending themselves and their families from home invasion. I live in the “stix” where “when seconds count the police are minutes away”.

    1. Same for my wife and I in the American Redoubt. We refuse to be victims. Also we never know what critters including dangerous dogs await us when we walk outside.

    2. Had a break in last year. I was sitting on the couch with my 1 1/2 year old watching Mickey mouse at about 830pm when I heard glass break. It was 2 guys breaking into my basement. Luckily, I ccw a 9mm shield and just wear it til I go to sleep so I was able to respond immediately. They took off the second they saw me and no shots were fired thank God but I’m sure glad I was armed.

      They were actually very lucky that I was able to respond so fast. Had I been in my bedroom they’d have had time to get all the way into the basement and would have been met with the mighty 590.

  3. Interesting article on the American Arms AR-180. Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I remember seeing it make an appearance, maybe with its monster laser sight, on the Johnny Carson show and being shot on stage. Think of all the snowflakes that would have meltdowns if something like that happened today.

  4. regarding safe water…I was in the water conditioning business for almost 40 years…we put a lot of systems on lake water which was very dirty…we super chlorinated the water (with adequate contact time), which created floc…then the water was passed through a sediment filter then a carbon filter to remove the residual chlorine…created amazingly clean water.

  5. Armed at home?Always! Egg collecting first of the morning; tool belt on; tractor work (shoulder rig); always.
    End of day when I unload the EDC items, I really think about it.
    Barn gun, truck gun, coop gun, etc.
    Hard to get my wife to carry but she knows where most things are.
    Lived in the city for years. Got me properly paranoid!
    We are our own first responders, regardless of where we live….if we choose to do so.
    Off topic but our old 1 ton Ford carries 600gal of water and a small pump, with b/u pump. Poor boy fire truck!

  6. .22LR
    If I remember correctly, I read an article on the IDF using a Ruger 10/22 with a barrel shroud suppressor, quite effectively against “certain Palestinians”.
    So…..yeah. .22LR can be very effective.

  7. Regarding the .22 LR: Many years ago, when I lived ‘way off grid in Alaska, I carried a 10-22 when I cut wood in the winter. The bears were hibernating but the moose weren’t and one came to watch me cutting up a tree I had fallen. I stalked him about a mile, in a big circle that brought me back to my woodpile. I laid down on the hard snow and put a shot into his right eye, dropping him to his knees. I then ran up and put another shot through his brain, ending the hunt. It took me longer to cut him up and sled him back to the road than it did to kill him but I can attest to the lethality of the .22!

    1. ….shot moose in the eye…then the brain…

      sorry. I’ve been taught to practice a clean and humane kill when I hunt…moose and 22RF don’t cut it for me….FWIW…..

  8. The information about Roman concrete fails to mention, or downplays, several important factors. The major cause of deterioration of concrete exposed to seawater is corrosion of the reinforcing steel. Roman concrete contained no steel. Salt in seawater can gradually deteriorate unreinforced concrete, but only if there are wetting and drying cycles that result in salt crystal growth and surface flaking. Note that the Roman concrete in a photo in the article does indeed exhibit surface flaking. The strength gain of concrete containing pozzolans such as volcanic ash will continue for long periods if the concrete is submerged in water. But so will concrete made with Portland cement. As long as there is water and unhydrated cement or pozzolan plus calcium hydroxide strength gain continues slowly for hundreds of years. So there’s no magic in the combination of pozzolans and salt water. U.S. dams exposed only to fresh water and made only with a slow reacting cement have gained strength this way as indicated by successive core tests. Finally, the people who comment on the long life of Roman concretes are using faulty logic called survivor bias. Most of the Roman concrete is gone. It deteriorated for a number of reasons. The remaining concrete is on the far (good) end of the normal distribution curve. There are numerous factors that could be responsible for this, but I doubt that the combination of pozzolan and seawater is an important one.

  9. Regarding Home Carry

    From the time I get up, until the time I go to bed. And it is close at hand beside the bed.To assume nothing bad can / will happen while at home is extremely foolish. Prepping is a lifestyle, not some part time hobby.

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